From Cuentos Populares en Chile (Chilean Folktales) – by Ramón A. Laval
Part 2 – Myths, Traditions, Things (Mitos, Tradiciones, Casos)
050. The Old Goat (El Cabro Viejo)
(D. Francisco Vásquez, 1911.)
In Cordillera lives a being that is half man (a bearded old man) and half goat. He only goes out at night, and if someone passes close to where he is, he calls them by their name; and if they answer him, he would disappear immediately and they [then] would find him very far away, in this very same province, without a head and with a broken body; or he ends up in the Pyrenees. Many workers of the trans-Andean railroad are witnesses to the former.
—– VOCABULARY —–
Barbudo – (with a beard) bearded; (man with facial hair) bearded man, man with a beard)
Destrozado – (in pieces) ruined, smashed, wrecked; (dispirited) devastated, broken (heart), shattered, (fatigued) exhausted
Ferrocarril – (transportation system) railroad, railway; (vehicle) train